Artem Zolotarov

Artem Zolotarov was born in Ukraine in 1989 and moved to Germany with his family in 1998. He began writing poems, short stories and rap lyrics in 2010 and took up poetry slam in 2014. In 2015, he became Rhineland-Palatinate poetry slam champion and competed at the German-language international championships. In 2016 and 2017, he performed for the Goethe-Institut in Metz and Paris. In 2018, he won the Tuttlinger Krähe and came third in the Das Schwarze Schaf cabaret prize. In 2021, he received both the audience and jury prizes at the St. Ingberter Pfanne. In addition to poetry-slam texts, he wrote poetry, prose, plays and rap songs. Als Kafka lachte is his debut novel.